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by KansasCity-2012 June 2, 2012 11:12 AM EDT
I don't have a gun, but I know people who do and carry it. They praise their ownership and speak of its' power to protect them. They even tell hypothetical stories where they are in situations and use their gun to solve their problems.

These are the kinds of people who spread misguidance and poor judgement to others about how to survive escalating conflicts.

I wouldn't doubt that Zimmerman heard these stories and eventually adopted one as a script for his life. It sounds stupid, but passionate and self-righteous personalities often transmit and steer people into these paths and later call it another story that justifies their cause. They say, "Do you see what I am talking about? Look what happened to so and so!" Then the drama follows .... oh the drama!!!

Yes, I don't carry a gun, but I know people who do....and all of them love drama.

There are some who feel so insecure on the streets without a gun, like being in a kayak without a paddle.
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by 1two3four5 June 2, 2012 10:17 AM EDT
In the very first place the sanctimonious court is not a sovereignty unto us all! This judge with the power of life and death should be as above reproach as HE or She holds others to the same form of integrity, so if his or her HONOR does not color the truth then and only then should they be allowed the discretion shown here, in other words "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". This court nor any other has the right to use (or know) your financial situation, either grant or deny bond ability based upon flight risk. Not how much money can I screw you out of. This whole farce of a showcased crime is done so ONLY because the "victim" was/is BLACK!!! The media whips up the flames for racial hatred each and every day and way it can. Other victims can suffer vicious attacks, be mutilated, kidnapped, raped, robbed, murdered, the list goes on forever and the media does not mention this if it is either a white person or a yellow person or a brown person or a red person but OH LORD let the "victim" be black and it is all you see, read or hear about for years. Instead of creating sympathy and alerting the populace to real racial hatred the media and the law as a whole is attempting to make a victim of Zimmerman. What is happening by this ever continuing "pity me because I am black" horseapples is actually causing racial hatred. Zimmerman did some things the wrong way obviously but SO DID MARTIN yet every single article tries its very best to show bias and does so without shame. Had Martin explained loudly where he was going and why, the whole situation could have been defused but hatred has been taught from birth as is belligerence so it never occurred to Martin what the correct behavior was and that in a nutshell is why he is dead, not because he was/is black but because he had no clue how to act. Put that stupid hoody on and walk the walk.......
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by RodmanGoode June 2, 2012 10:06 AM EDT
Allow me to play devil's advocate. Perhaps it was an honest gaff. Maybe it's all a misunderstanding. Maybe Zimmerman and his wife simply misstated their net worth. After all, $200,000 is a hard number to clearly articulate.
"Two hundred-thousand dollars."
"Two hundred grand."
"A couple of hundred K."
"Two hundred-thousand smackers."
Nope. Not that difficult to say after all. Maybe I was wrong.
Maybe Zimmerman's just a liar.
http://goodethoughts.blogspot.com
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by GoodOleBoy27 June 2, 2012 9:47 AM EDT
I wonder what would have happened that night when Zimmerman asked Martin,"What are you doing around here?", if Martin had answered,"I'm stayin down the street with my pappy".

Both men would have continued on and when the police showed up, everyone would have been home already!

This is very important!
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by endrepubs June 2, 2012 9:33 AM EDT
Z is already caught in a bald faced lie to the court. How could any of his sworn testimony be believable now? I do think this was murder and not self defense. You just don't follow someone around with a gun after the police warned you not to. Z thought he was cop, judge and executioner all in one.
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by ammo17 June 2, 2012 9:30 AM EDT
didn`t our black congressmen and senators already condemed zimmerman as guilty as well as every newspaper and tv stations in the country.where in this country is this guy going to get a fair trial?
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by LosAngelesCA June 2, 2012 9:08 AM EDT
The Martin Family attorney, Ben Crump, is doing such a great job, particularly with combating some of the racist comments. I was so happy to donate money to help out with this case. Crump is in Tallahassee Florida.
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by mick7744 June 2, 2012 8:17 AM EDT
by mecanik-

This whole case has become a political football and needs to stop. It's fueled by racial bias and politics.

There's no way he can get a fair trial now.

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Not to worry, mecanik...The LAST thing Zimmerman wants is a fair and impartial trial leading to a just verdict. That would probably fill up pudgy little George's social calander for the next decade or so.

His fixer-father did much to create the political circus when he saw the SYG scam was going south. These are sleazy, insider-type people who see the law as something to be inflicted on others...and manipulated by themselves
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by karlejohn June 2, 2012 8:10 AM EDT
I will keep praying justice for an American child that was killed, walking home with candy and iced tea. I pray that justice will flow down in Florida like a mighty river. How long, not long! Praise God!
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by varigdc10 June 2, 2012 7:35 AM EDT
Neither one of these people are even close to being "pillars of society". Martin is a certified juvenile delinquent who walks around the streets for lack of anything positive to do and, Zim is another loser who walks around the streets playing cop also for lack of anything constructive to do. If it wasn't for Al and Jessee stirring up some racial crap nobody would have heard of these meaningless losers !
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